Assessing and fostering industrial energy management through energy management practic's definition and classification

The work reported here is the PhD thesis of Aida Salimnezhadgharehziaeddini. The work consists of a collection of five papers focused on energy management (EnM) programs and practices and also determinant factors in which supporting the decision making process which lead to the implementation of EnM programs in Small, Medium and Large sized energyintensive companies from different sectors. This introductory section has two objectives: - It clarifies the theoretical and empirical background of the research project, and it presents the main problem addressed. These topics are discussed in the first part of this introductory section: “Background”. - It clarifies the overall objective of the research and it summarizes the aims, methods and findings of the five included papers, explaining the way in which the papers are aligned with respect to the overall objective of the research. These topics are discussed in the second part of this introductory section: “The research project”. This introductory section is followed by the five papers, which are the main results of the current thesis.